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Replicate AI
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Pay-per-use cloud API to run, fine-tune, and deploy thousands of open-source and proprietary AI models with one line of code.
1.3M visits/mo17K saves
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Lightning AI
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Cloud platform from the makers of PyTorch Lightning for building, training and deploying AI in browser-based GPU Studios.
467K visits/mo3.8K saves
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CometAPI
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Unified API to 500+ AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.) with OpenAI-compatible calls priced ~20% below official rates.
363K visits/mo4.8K saves
Pricing
CPU (Small): $0.000025/sec ($0.09/hr)
Nvidia A100 80GB: $0.0014/sec ($5.04/hr)
Nvidia H100: $0.001525/sec ($5.49/hr)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Pay-as-you-go, min top-up $10
GPT-5.6: $4 / 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 5: $1.6 / 1M tokens
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦One-line API calls to run community and proprietary AI models
- ✦Support for image, video, speech, and LLM generation models
- ✦Fine-tuning and custom model deployment via Cog
- ✦Per-second usage billing on shared or dedicated hardware
- ✦Automatic scaling for high-traffic private models
- ✦Thousands of community-published models with production APIs
- ✦Browser-based Lightning Studios with on-demand GPUs
- ✦PyTorch Lightning training framework
- ✦Model training, fine-tuning and deployment
- ✦Collaborative, shareable ML environments
- ✦Scalable multi-GPU/multi-node compute
- ✦One key for 500+ models
- ✦OpenAI-compatible API
- ✦Pay-as-you-go credits (~20% below list)
- ✦Multimodal: text, image, video, audio
- ✦Usage analytics and budget alerts
- ✦Integrations (Claude Code, n8n, Zapier, etc.)
Use cases
- →Developers embedding image/video/speech generation into an app via API
- →Teams deploying and scaling their own fine-tuned models
- →Builders comparing outputs from multiple AI models in one playground
- →Companies avoiding GPU infrastructure management for ML inference
- →Prototype and train ML models in the cloud
- →Fine-tune and deploy foundation models
- →Run reproducible AI experiments collaboratively
- →Consolidating multi-provider AI billing
- →Switching models without re-integration
- →Powering apps and automation pipelines
- →Benchmarking models in one playground
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